Frankenstein is created in a laboratory, not piecemeal from body parts as in the films but from a nebulous scientific process involving chemistry, alchemy and galvanism. Aware that his appearance repulses and frightens, Frankenstein struggles to find a place for himself in this world without the guiding hand of the creator who rejected him. While the book shows Frankenstein as an eloquent philosopher, able to comment on his loneliness, he is also filled with anger and vengeance towards the world and his creator; a romantic hero and a monster.

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